We believe work is not a place, but rather a thing you do. Our technology revolves around this core philosophy. We are relentlessly committed to helping people work and play from anywhere, on any device. Innovation, creativity and a passion for ever-improving performance drive our company and our people forward. We empower the original mobile device: YOU!
What we’re looking for:
You are a Cloud Solution Architect with experience working in the cloud at scale. You serve as a SME and design lead on project teams solving real-world problems in architecture, cloud resiliency and deployment at scale.
Position Overview:
Citrix is a cloud company that enables mobile workstyles. We create a continuum between work and life by allowing people to work whenever, wherever, and however they choose. Flexibility and collaboration is what we are all about.
Citrix is rapidly developing and expanding its portfolio of global-scale cloud applications across all product lines, including app/desktop virtualization, networking, and content collaboration. These applications must deliver enterprise-grade availability, performance, security, and compliance while leveraging consumer internet economies of scale in multiple clouds (and in hybrid scenarios that reach behind the enterprise firewall). This requires excellent architecture and DevOps process in software development, operations, and site reliability engineering.
We need a seasoned engineer with deep understanding and hands-on experience in these areas to deliver corporate-wide technical leadership across our 2,000+ strong engineering organization. The right candidate for this role excels in both outbound leadership (evangelism, leveraged communication, and executive influence) and inbound leadership (innovating, solving hard technical problems hands-on-keyboard, and rapidly learning and evaluating new technologies).
The perks: We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. You will enjoy our workstyle within an incredible culture. We will give you all the tools you need to succeed so you can grow and develop with us.
Role Responsibilities:
- Be a Citrix engineering authority on overall cloud architecture and site reliability engineering.
- Be the Citrix engineering authority on one or more special topics, such as Kubernetes, wide-column NoSQL, or global traffic management.
- Work with other senior technical leaders to develop, validate, and communicate the technical vision for our cloud operations (and how we can best deliver value to our customers).
- Advise engineering and corporate leadership on cloud research investment and long-term direction.
- Ensure Citrix leads the industry in cloud application delivery.
Basic Qualifications:
- 7 years of industry experience in cloud at scale
- Requires mastery level knowledge of job area obtained through advanced education combined with experience. May have deep knowledge of project management
- Requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience; or Master’s degree with 8 years; or PhD with 5 years of experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise in multiple cloud application programming languages and platforms
- Demonstrable deep knowledge of multiple tier-1 cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.)
- Proven record of innovation combined with shipping real products
- Notable published research and patents in cloud application technology
- Industry software development experience in SaaS, large-scale web applications, and large-scale enterprise software
- Ability to design and execute on research agenda.
- Proven ability to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and winning multi-tenant, cloud native applications
- Cost engineering large scale, SaaS applications to meet profit margin and earnings targets
- Examples of leveraging cloud services for product development
- Examples of developing micro-service system architectures (moderate to complex)
- Knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, big data, and object storage technologies (including global data replication)
- Practical knowledge of key web UI technologies (React, Angular, etc.)
- Design and implementation of cloud-based systems for global availability including practice in chaos engineering
- Practical knowledge of APM, monitoring, and logging at scale
- Experience with cloud-based security principles and crypto technologies including HSMs and key management
- Experience building SaaS solutions at scale using technologies and concepts such as CDN, messaging, caching, batch, FaaS, DDos, GTM, and search
- Experience with cloud hosting and provisioning technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, Helm
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What you’re looking for:
Our technology is built on the idea that everyone should be able to work from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. It’s a simple philosophy that guides everything we do — including how we work. If you’re an engineer, we’ll give you plenty of ways to test your skills on cutting edge technology. We want employees to do what they do best, every day.
Be bold. Take risks. Imagine a better way to work. If this sounds like you then we’d love to talk.
Functional Area:
Cloud Ops
About us:
Citrix is a cloud company that enables mobile workstyles. We create a continuum between work and life by allowing people to work whenever, wherever, and however they choose. Flexibility and collaboration is what we’re all about. The Perks: We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. You’ll enjoy our workstyle within an incredible culture. We’ll give you all the tools you need to succeed so you can grow and develop with us.
Citrix Systems, Inc. is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, marital status, protected veteran status and other protected classifications.
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Citrix welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please contact us at (877) 924-8749 or email us at ASKHR@citrix.com for assistance.
If this is an evergreen requisition, by applying you are giving Citrix consent to be considered for future openings of other roles of similar qualifications.
